antitammany

Date in caption should be 9/13/13

@swang: you mean 9/3/13.

Yes, of course.

swanq & Wystan: Thanks for the heads up about the date! The caption cards for this group of photographs (often the source for our captions rather than the negatives themselves) surely gave us quite a few different dates. We will correct them all to read 9/3/13.

Years ago, a summer intern at LOC thought he was playing a merry prank when he inscribed different year dates on all those Gaynor Notification caption cards. William Jay Gaynor had served a term as reform mayor of New York. Because the incorruptible Gaynor would not cooperate with the Tammany machine, Tammany (the New York Democratic Party) refused to nominate him for a second term. So Gaynor was renominated by an independent group, and accepted their nomination. In this photo, the independents notify Gaynor of the nomination, just before he sailed to Europe on a vacation voyage. On September 10, exactly a week after this photo was taken, Gaynor died of a heart attack, in his deck chair aboard the steamship Baltic, 400 miles off the coast of Ireland.

Time flies. This day started out in 1913, and look where it's gone... :)

i like the way they dress up. formal and nice..!

Either that statue of Nathan Hale has been moved, or the area around NYC City Hall looks a lot different now: www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/lowermanhatt...

Another of these photos also has the wrong date, but says it is 1918.

rjones0856: Good eye! The statue of Hale was originally placed at the intersection of Broadway & Murray Street in the 1890's, but was moved to the lawn facing City Hall's entrance in 1999. Wystan: Thanks for the heads up on the date!